Heraeus Group
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Oct 13, 2026
Permanent Magnets: Simplifying Reverse Logistics with Wilo
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28:09Thomas FettingGUEST
And, uh, that's what we do.
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28:11Thomas FettingGUEST
And the second thing is that we, if we can't use the magnet anymore because its design has undergone some major changes or it's somehow broken or corroded, we collect these magnets and then give them to our partner, which is, uh, Heraeus.
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28:25Patrick HypscherHOST
Mm-hmm.
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28:26Thomas FettingGUEST
We've spent nine years researching with them on how to turn old magnets from electric cars, hard drives, e-bikes and, and, um, back into magnet powder.
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28:45Thomas FettingGUEST
I mean, I don't think any car manufacturer, tool manufacturer and company in Germany has their own magnet production.
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28:52Thomas FettingGUEST
So we order powder from China and practically manufacture a magnet from it.
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28:56Thomas FettingGUEST
Everyone else orders finished magnets from somewhere in the world, usually in, in China too, you know? So, uh, we've set up a process together with Heraeus to turn old magnets back into powder.
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29:09Thomas FettingGUEST
And because we have our own production where we need powder, we want to make new magnets out of these old magnets once we've made the powder, you see.